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wields-hammer (for building and destroying), 2023 by Luke Van H

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Van H combines various digital and material processes to make paintings that inhabit a shifting space somewhere closely-adjacent to our own realities. Each painting operates as a portal into the larger body of work and ever-expanding garden. Individual pieces can be understood as icons of devotion and stopping points in one’s pilgrimage through the garden.

The paintings are produced in a series of meticulous, sequential steps, using the digital drawing as a map. Thus the object becomes a distorted duplicate of its digital originator. Spawned from a digital plan. Shut out from its other pixelated half. Subjected to the deterioration of time and space.

1/1 - Original Artwork

16"W - 20"L

Acrylic on wood panel

Luke van H (b. 1995) grew up in London, Ontario, graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2019, and lives and works in Toronto. In the last five years, Van H has crafted a unique visual vocabulary of garden imagery to explore the idea of a virtual garden - a place where anything can happen. The integration and separation of technology from everyday life and nature is an ongoing interest in Van H’s work. Van H combines various digital and material processes to make paintings that inhabit a shifting space somewhere closely-adjacent to our own realities.